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cenobitical

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or befitting cenobites or their practices of communal living

How To Use cenobitical In A Sentence

  • At the same time there were many clerics who did live in common, e.g. the cenobites, and the term canon was applied to them as early as the fourth century; but it must not be inferred from this fact that the office of canon has its origin in those who followed the cenobitical Rule of St. Augustine (see The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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